Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDoubt can only be removed by action.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Remember to live.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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